9 must-read short stories books like The Jumping Monkey Hill by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

The Jumping Monkey Hill

By: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

4.02

Format: 64 pages, ebook

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If you liked the short stories plot in The Jumping Monkey Hill by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie , here is a list of 9 books like this:

Cover of Goblin Market by Joyce Carol Oates, William Morris, Laurence Housman, Christina Rossetti, Dante Gabriel Rossetti

1. Goblin Market

By: Joyce Carol Oates , William Morris , Laurence Housman , Christina Rossetti , Dante Gabriel Rossetti

3.82

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

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  • fiction
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2. The Story of an Hour

By: Kate Chopin

4.07

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

In these four stories, Kate Chopin subtly captures the intricate interior lives of a generation of … read more

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  • fiction
  • short stories
  • school
"Spring days, and summer days, and all sorts of days that would be her own. She breathed a quick prayer that life might be long. It was only yesterday she had thought with a shudder that life might be…"

-Kate Chopin, The Story of an Hour

"there would be no powerful will binding hers in that blind persistence with which men and women believe they have a right to impose a private will upon a fellow creature…And yet she had loved him- so…"

-Kate Chopin, The Story of an Hour

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3. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

By: Muriel Spark

3.70

Format: 150 pages, Paperback

A teacher at a girl's school in Edinburgh during the 1930s comes into conflict with school authorit… read more

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  • fiction
"It's only possible to betray where loyalty is due"

-Muriel Spark, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

"[...] there were other people's Edinburghs quite different from hers [...]"

-Muriel Spark, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

"... flattening their scorn underneath the chariot wheels of her superiority."

-Muriel Spark, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

"To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul."

-Muriel Spark, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

Cover of Fantomina; or, Love in a Maze by Eliza Fowler Haywood

4. Fantomina; or, Love in a Maze

By: Eliza Fowler Haywood

3.86

Format: 568 pages, Paperback

Eliza Haywood (1693-1756) (born Elizabeth Fowler) was an English writer, actress and publisher. Sin… read more

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  • fiction
  • short stories
  • school

5. The Garden Party

By: Katherine Mansfield

3.62

Format: None pages, ebook

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge… read more

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6. The Bone People

By: Keri Hulme

3.51

Format: None pages,

In a tower on the New Zealand sea lives Kerewin Holmes, part Maori, part European, an artist estran… read more

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7. The Bridge on the Drina

By: Ivo Andrić , William H. McNeill , None

3.81

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

In the small Bosnian town of Visegrad the stone bridge of the novel's title, built in the sixteenth… read more

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8. Tender Buttons

By: Gertrude Stein

4.43

Format: 303 pages, Paperback

Tender Buttons is the best known of Gertrude Stein's "hermetic" works. It is a small book separated… read more

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9. Un señor muy viejo con unas alas enormes

By: Gabriel García Márquez , Carme Solé Vendrell

3.54

Format: None pages,

"A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings" is a short story that begins with a couple, Pelayo and Elisend… read more

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10. The Veldt

By: Ray Bradbury , Gary Kelley

5.00

Format: 32 pages,

The advanced technology of a house first pleases then increasingly terrifies its occupants. read more

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11. The Gift of the Magi

By: O. Henry , Lisbeth Zwerger

4.11

Format: 26 pages, Hardcover

O. Henry's classic tale of the wisest gifts of Christmas is itself a gift to share and treasure. … read more

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  • fiction
  • short stories
  • school
"Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating."

-O. Henry, The Gift of the Magi

"There was clearly nothing to do but flop down on the shabby little couch and howl."

-O. Henry, The Gift of the Magi

"There was clearly nothing to do but flop down on the shabby little couch and howl. So Della did it. Which instigates the moral reflection that life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with snif…"

-O. Henry, The Gift of the Magi

"Единственное, что тут можно было сделать, это хлопнуться на старенькую кушетку и зареветь. Именно так Делла и поступила. Откуда напрашивается философский вывод, что жизнь состоит из слез, вздохов и у…"

-O. Henry, The Gift of the Magi

12. Disgrace

By: J.M. Coetzee

3.50

Format: None pages, Paperback

Set in post-apartheid South Africa, J. M. Coetzee's searing novel tells the story of David Lurie, a… read more

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13. Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)

By: Chinua Achebe

3.73

Format: 215 pages, Paperback

A simple story of a "strong man" whose life is dominated by fear and anger, Things Fall Apart is wr… read more

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  • fiction
  • school
"Let us not reason like cowards,"

-Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)

"There is no story that is not true."

-Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)

"عندما يضئ القمر يشعر الكسيح برغبة قوية إلى المشي"

-Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)

"إذا نظر امرؤ إلى فم ملك, ظن أنه لم يرضع قط من ثدي أمه"

-Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)

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14. A Sound of Thunder

By: Ray Bradbury

4.08

Format: 15 pages, ebook

Free online fiction. The short story, A Sound of Thunder, involves a Time Travel Safari where ri… read more

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  • fiction
  • short stories
  • school
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15. Cat Person

By: Kristen Roupenian

3.67

Format: 59 pages, Kindle Edition

She thought, brightly, This is the worst life decision I have ever made! And she marvelled at herse… read more

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  • fiction
  • short stories
  • school
Cover of Mr Salary by Sally Rooney

16. Mr Salary

By: Sally Rooney

3.78

Format: 33 pages, Paperback

My love for him felt so total and so annihilating that it was often impossible for me to see him cl… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
"My love for him felt so total and so annihilating that it was often impossible for me to see him clearly at all."

-Sally Rooney, Mr Salary

"He watched me at first but then looked away. "Would it be a major bereavement for you if I died?" I said. "The most major one I can think of, yeah." "Nobody else would grieve."

-Sally Rooney, Mr Salary

"Death was, of course, the most ordinary thing that could happen, at some level I knew that. Still, I had stood there waiting to see the body in the river, ignoring the real living bodies all around m…"

-Sally Rooney, Mr Salary

"Nothing inside my body was trying to kill me. Death was, of course, the most ordinary thing that could happen, at some level I knew that. Still, I had stood there waiting to see the body in the river…"

-Sally Rooney, Mr Salary

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17. Recitatif

By: Toni Morrison

4.31

Format: 19 pages, Audiobook

A beautiful, arresting short story by Toni Morrison—the only one she ever wrote—about race and the … read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
"Difficult to “move on"

-Toni Morrison, Recitatif

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18. Small Worlds

By: Caleb Azumah Nelson

4.32

Format: 260 pages, Hardcover

An exhilarating and expansive new novel about fathers and sons, faith and friendship from Caleb Azu… read more

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  • fiction
"Grief never ends, but we find a way to walk in the light someone has left behind, rather than living in pain's shadow."

-Caleb Azumah Nelson, Small Worlds

"It's here, when I'm with her, I know that a world can be two people, occupying a space where we don't have to explain. Where we can feel beautiful. Where we might feel free."

-Caleb Azumah Nelson, Small Worlds

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19. Hills Like White Elephants

By: Ernest Hemingway

3.85

Format: 6 pages, Kindle Edition

A conversation in a Spanish cafe between a man and a woman that is not as simple as it seems. Hi… read more

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  • fiction
  • short stories
  • school
Cover of The Feminist Manifesto by Mina Loy

20. The Feminist Manifesto

By: Mina Loy

3.35

Format: 1 pages, Unknown Binding

A galvanising polemic against the subordinate position of women in society, the short text remained… read more

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21. The Jumping Monkey Hill

By: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

4.02

Format: 64 pages, ebook

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  • short stories
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Joyce Carol Oates , William Morris , Laurence Housman , Christina Rossetti , Dante Gabriel Rossetti

3.82

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Kate Chopin

4.07

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3.70

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4.14

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